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Bri Gonzalez

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ABOUT

Bri Gonzalez is a queer, Chicane writer from San Antonio, TX. They received their MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado Boulder. Bri is a graduate of the Napa Valley Writer's Conference, Abode Press's Summer Retreat, and the Aspen Summer Words sci-fi/fantasy workshop. Bri is also a founding member of the Women in Horror Arts & Media Association.Their writing centers around themes of mental illness, diagnosis, selfhood, community, and the ever-challenging midpoint between who we are and what we struggle with. That, and monsters.Bri's debut hybrid collection, A Wellness Check was published by Game Over Books in 2024. The collection investigates mental illness in pop culture by putting prescription pads and glitter pens in the hands of Gotham's Dark Knight.Bri is represented by Diego Harrison at SBR Media.

When Bri's not writing, they can be found marathoning horror movies, playing D&D, listening to Sleep Token, and bothering their cat, Dahlia. They're currently researching all the ins and outs of eggs.Favorite horror movies:
- Scream (1996)
- Obsession (2026)
- The Ritual (2017)
- Fright Night (1985)
- The Invisible Man (2020)
- Child's Play (1988)

BOOKS

A WELLNESS CHECK

There, in the night sky, projected over city smog and ghost stars—the Rat Signal. Followed by the rev of the Ratmobile’s custom made engine and the inevitable slam of Asylum doors.Bri Gonzalez’s debut collection, A Wellness Check, snatches a beloved caped crusader and spins him on his head. It follows a recently diagnosed speaker under the care of Dr. Ratman—part-time psychologist, part-time vigilante who ratarangs his patients into submission. Alongside characters like Mr. Double-Side, The Quippler, and Clown Princess, the speaker must untangle their relationship with Dr. Ratman and their disorder.Through an amalgamation of hybrid prose, poetry, screenplays, and fragment essays, A Wellness Check jabs at pop culture's use of mental illness as shock value. Here, the experience of diagnosis is laid bare. Here, the joys and pains of clinical illness are interwoven with rat fists, diner coffee, crossword puzzles, plot twists, divinity, and the looming shadows of heroes that want us dead, or worse.

Purchase your copy here.Press on AWC:
"Author Spotlight: Bri Gonzalez" with Letras Latinas
"a conversation with Bri Gonzalez" with SG Huerta on trans poetica

PRAISE FOR

“It’s like coming out all over again, minus / the guarantees I am still loved.” A Wellness Check is a revelation delivered via bipolar poetics. Madness takes the form of reflections and pop culture subversions, movie scripts and footnotes, collages and collapses. The reader is lucky to be along for the ride of intentional typography and delicious language. I want to hand deliver this book to every bipolar I know so we can sing A Wellness Check during our lowest lows and highest highs.” — SG Huerta, author of Last Stop and GOOD GRIEF“In these dark days of wellness culture™ and the isolating directives of self-care, Bri Gonzalez’s A Wellness Check wields deadpan humor in examining mental health topics typically reserved for the utmost seriousness.

What I love most about this book is its unabashed indictment of the stories we tell about ourselves—from our penchant towards black-and-white superhero archetypes, to the stark lines that compose a diagnosis. This is a rare and refreshing book that upends the sieve of identity placed under clinical scrutiny—by institutions, by nationhood, by cultural imbrication under late-capitalist compartmentalization. What we encounter instead is not a way out, but a way into the mess. Of living. Of embodiment. Of disobedience. Of resistance to the static sutures of our lives that we so often find ourselves delicately bound. I love this book.” — Jessica Q. Stark, author of Buffalo Girl and Savage Pageant

WRITING